Poetry Elements
Story Elements
Roots, Suffixes, and prefixes
Reading Skills
Random
100
Words that evoke pictures in your mind
What is imagery?
100
The people or animals in a story
What are characters?
100
The meaning of the prefix, under
What is sub
100
The most important point the author is making about a topic
What is the main idea? or What is the theme?
100
A well known saying that is usually not literal, example, as easy as pie.
What is an idiom?
200
A figure of speech in which two things are being compared by saying one thing is the other example: Your face is a red tomato.
What is a metaphor?
200
When a story reaches its critical point
What is the climax?
200
the meaning of the prefix, inter.
What is between?
200
Identifying similarities and differences between two items
What is comparing and contrasting?
200
Using your own words to retell the most important or main ideas of a text
What is to summarize?
300
An example of this would be, "His conscience, of course, was as black as a bat."
What is a simile?
300
The problem in a story
What is the conflict?
300
the meaning of the suffix, ology. example, mythology
what is the study of?
300
The likely meaning of the word inaudible in this sentence When Sara was sick, her voice was almost inaudible. We couldn't hear what she was trying to say clearly.
What is very soft, hard to hear?
300
From whose perspective the story is told
What is point of view?
400
A huge exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
The events that happen in a story
What is the plot?
400
the meaning of the suffix, ous. example: wondrous.
What is full of, having?
400
the likely meaning of gregarious in this sentence. Shawnte has so many friends because she is a gregarious person.
What is friendly and outgoing?
400
The response provides a complete answer to the task, e. g., a statement that offers a correct answer as well as text based support. The response provides specific, appropriate, and accurate details or examples.
What is 3 points on a open ended response?
500
An example of this is: Mrs. Horry had a huge hat.
What is alliteration?
500
An example of this element would be: Erie, PA; Warner Theater; State Street; February 16th, 1964; 3:30PM.
What is the setting?
500
the meaning of the root word, phil. example: philanthropist
What is love
500
Using clues to find meaning in a text when the answer in not "right there"
What is inferring?
500
Author's purpose
What is the reason an author is writing a text?
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